The Salamanca-born Javier Dávila González once again demonstrates his talents as a contestant in “Pasapalabra” and Pablo Díaz, whom he has put in trouble, looks at him with concern. The professor and lawyer got the bug to re-measure his knowledge and sent a message successfully. “They have caught me after doing a face-to-face ‘donut’,” he explains, now that Antena 3’s audience is passionately living their return in front of television cameras.
Although he had not participated in a contest for a few years, he has never stopped preparing: “Knowledge has no place. And if it does not work for this, it will work for something else, although I am specialized in knowledge with initials. I have almost 18,000 chips on my computer, of all kinds of themes. You take the difficult words from the dictionary, sports, geography, authors and everything you can think of to look at. I dedicate lost time to him, but nobody takes two hours a day from me, ”says the man from Salamanca.
This fondness for knowledge has also brought Javier Dávila a extra money with contests. The man from Salamanca has won 168,000 euros if he adds his time through “Pasapalabra” when it was broadcast on Telecinco, for “Know and win” on La 2 on TVE, and for “Gran Slam” on Cuatro. “With that little money”, Javier Dávila affirms, “you pay the mortgage, you buy a car … These are amounts that they don’t give me to retire. Contest money makes your life easier and you can treat yourself to little luxuries. And if I won the jackpot (of 1.3 million now), I don’t think I would retire either, but it is an appreciable amount for you to consider changing your life ”.
Are you nervous about competing? “Of course! Above all, with the Blue Chair, because you can just leave – this Friday he was surpassed by Pablo and he will have to try it again. Nerves are part of the game. And they are fine, that is what they were used for ”, he emphasizes. And the failures take their toll? “When you make a mistake you feel bad, but what are you going to do? He who does not play, does not fail. And mistakes must be overcome. The contest is free. It’s not like gambling yourself in opposition. I do not have the future in competitions, although they are very good for me. It is better to continue and it is charming when people say to you: “How good you are!” The ruling makes you angry and it accompanies you for a while, until you are going to live your life, “he says.
Javier Dávila resides in Cantabria. His parents and three brothers live in Salamanca (with a fourth brother in Brussels). They have yet to celebrate the 60 years of their parents’ marriage, as recounted by the contestant who, after overcoming a opposition to the Body of Lawyers of Cantabria, where his wife lived, he is now a civil servant in the Child Protection Service for Minors. And he is also an associate professor of Civil Law at the University of Cantabria.
– .
